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Influence of Musical Sounds on a Jet of Coal-gas. 68 
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submitted to an experimental test. Fe de 
As in Prof. Tyndall’s experiments on the jet of gas burning 
‘ With regard to the mode in which the sounds are produced 
oe combustion of gases in tubes, it is universally admitted, 
that the explanation given by’Prof. Faraday in 1818 is essentially 
Correct. It is well known that he referred these sounds to the 
Successive explosions produced by the periodic combination of 
’e Atmospheric oxygen with the issuing jet of gas. While 
ing Prof. J. Plateau’s admirable researches (third series) on 
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a lheory of the modifications experienced by Jets of Liquid 
Suing from circular orifices when exposed to the influence of 
ph menon which had fallen under my obse ation, was nothing 
y observ : 
More than a particular case of the effects of sounds on all kinds 
. Philosophical Magazine, 4th series, vol. xiv, p. 1 et seq., July, 1857. 
